What happens to international new ventures beyond start-up: An exploratory study

Romeo Turcan () and Anita Juho ()

Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 2014, vol. 12, issue 2, 129-145

Abstract: Since its inception, research in international entrepreneurship has focused mainly on how and why international new ventures internationalize early on. To date, there has been hardly any research regarding the issue of continuing corporate growth in such ventures beyond their start-up phase or initial internationalization. Theoretically, we ground our study within the dynamic capabilities view of the firm and through an inductive theory building research explore how and whether international new ventures made-it beyond the start-up phase, aiming to generate early theoretical constructs to guide international entrepreneurship research in this substantive area. Grounded in data, we develop the following constructs related to made-it points: strategic experimentation, tensions in organizational gestalt, and legitimacy lies. To get to a made-it point, entrepreneurs experiment with their venture at several levels: organizational, business model, and operational. These experimentation efforts are fueled by tensions that exist in the organizational gestalt, such as ownership structure, business proposition to the market, and product development process. To legitimate themselves and their venture in the stakeholders’ eyes, entrepreneurs may tell legitimacy lies. We maintain that international new ventures do not reach a made-it point if they only manage to develop substantive capabilities to produce desired outputs at various levels within the venture but fail to create dynamic capabilities to change and reconfigure existing substantive capabilities. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

Keywords: International new venture; International entrepreneurship; Dynamic capability; Made-it point; Experimentation; Legitimacy lies; Critical incident; Theory building; D21; D22; L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s10843-014-0124-6

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